The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.


The bicycle is not as favorably
looked upon as the tricycle. by the Paris
authorities, and consequently its use is
restricted to certain thoroughfares,
while its three-wheeled brethren enjoy
the freedom of all the avenues and
boulevards in the city.
On the Avenue. -He-"Wasn't the
er-er-lawst night chawming-th con-
versation was so er-er chawming and the
er-er chawming-" She-"Chawm-
ing? Chawming! I've thought it all
over, DOM -cher know, and it really was
just awfully, jolly chawming. Puck.
"A small girl industriously studying
her lesson in American history came
across an allusion to the Shoshone
tribe of Indians, and after a silent
struggle with the word looked up weari-
ly and asked: Papa, who were the
Shoehorn Indians, anywayp"-B Boston
Bulletin.
DR.. Vulpian has reported to the
Paris Academy of Sciences that during
the epidemic of yellow fever lately pre-
vailing in Rio Janeiro, of 1924 persons
inoculated against the fever, only six
died, or less than one per thousand,
while the proportion of deaths among
those not treated was one per cent
Boston Budget.
At a recent meeting of colonial
representatives in London, called the
Colonial Conference, the fact was
brought out that the submarine tele-
graph systems of the world embrace
10Y, 900 miles of cable, costing some
thing like $1S5,0O0,0O0, and that all
except 1000 miles is under British con-
trol.-Public Opinion.
"A gentleman called at Carlisle,
Pa, bank one day recently and asked
the teller if they paid full value for
trade dollars stating that he had forty
of them which he had kept for several
years. He then produced the coin and
handed it to the teller. who found that
every one was a Bland dollar. Chicago
Herald.
The statement is made in a New
York City paper that one railroad car
ried $4,000 country boarders to farm
houses in three counties in the State.
where they stayed on an average eight
weeks each, and left in the hands of
farmers 81, 100000. If the statement is
true summer boarders appear to be the
best-paying crop farmer can raise.
Small pictures should never be
hung below large heavy ones; the latter
appear best in narrow spaces between
holdings and other convenient hooks,
or, if of high merit, resting on cabinets
or mantels. In all cases these should
be as near as possible in line with the
eye. A simple subject wildly por-
trayed may even be mounted over the
door, Cincinnati Times.
The Piegan Indians, of Montana,
have made over $4,000 this spring skin
ming the carcasses of cattle which per-
ished in the snow. The Indians re-
ceived seventy-fve cents for every hide
they brought in, and they exhibited
such industry that it became necessary
to watch the herds to prevent them
from skinning every animal in the ter
ritorY, dead or alive.-M. Y SIN.
-Agent-"Don't you wish to sub
scribe to this book?" South Carolinian
-''Reckon not" at tells all about
earthquakes. Here is a picture of
Charleston just after the earthquake"
II don't think that book will do me any
good. What 1 want is picture show
ing how the landscape looks just before
the earthquake. l might learn to get
out of the way.-TeraS SVtjngS.
-Pompey, who for thirteen years has
been an honored resident of the Phil
adelphia Zoo, died recently in the
presence of crowd collected to see
the animals fed. For four years Pom
pey; who was fine specimen of the
African lion, has been stone blind, but
otherwise in good health. He was
twenty-nine years old, four years above
the average life of the Gagged lion. N
Y. Sun.
"A swarm of bees looking for
place to light settled upon span of
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near Montgomery, Ala. The mules
kicked and plunged and this excited the
bees, who began using their stings so
savagely that soon the mules dropped
dead. The driver saved his life by
running away, after a vain effort to
drive the bees from the mules.-Phila-
lelphia Press.
One of the new rules of a Western
railroad is that clergymen making
requisition for half fare tickets are
obliged to make affidavit that they are
regularly ordained and are engaged in
no other occupation. A certificate was
recently received from preacher at
Salina, Neb., who added after the
words, Il am engaged in no other bust
ness or occupation" the phrase, "But
in preaching the unsuchible richs of
gods Word. IN Y Sun.
"A French scientist who divines
character by simple inspection of
noses says that "the quick, passionate,
sanguine person has n strongly colored
nose of uniform shade" This gives
us a most accurate estimate of the char